Re: curious Ethernet errors
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> eth0: PCnet/ISA 79C960 at 0x340, 00 00 f4 b1 84 e7, probed IRQ 12, DMA 7.
> lance.c:v1.14ac 1998/11/20 dplatt@3do.com, becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
>
> The error message that appears in 'dmesg' at various times after
> booting is:
>
> eth0: transmit timed out, status 0062, resetting.
> Ring data dump: dirty_tx 118 cur_tx 134 (full) cur_rx 58.
> 83c09800 0608 00b6 83d3b800 0608 0040 83d3b000 0608 0040 83d3a800 0608 00b6
> 83d3a000 0608 0076 83d39800 0608 0040 83d39000 0608 0040 83d38800 0608 00b6
> 83d38000 0608 0040 83fd7800 0608 0076 83fd7000 0608 00ea 83fd6800 0608 00b6
> 83fd6000 0608 0044 83fd5800 0608 00b6 83fd5000 0608 0041 83fd4800 0608 0040
> 83ff0000 002a 0000 83f26002 04fe 0000 83c09002 05ea 0000 83c08802 05ea 0000
> 83ff1820 002a 0000 83ff1e28 002a 0000 83fd4002 04fe 0000 83ff2a38 05ea 0000
> 83ff3040 05ea 0000 83c08002 04fe 0000 83f27002 05ea 0000 83f26802 05ea 0000
> 83f27802 04fe 0000 83ff4e68 05ea 0000 83ff5470 05ea 0000 83ff5a78 002a 0000
>
> Note that error messages of this form, but different content appear
> irregularly, but frequently (2 in < 24 hours this time).
>
> Is the NIC bad
Possibly. Have you tried the NIC in a different ISA slot?
> or do I have another problem?
I would suggest that you use a newer kernel. From the looks of things,
you're using 2.0.36; I would try 2.0.38 or 2.2.14. If you use a newer
kernel and you're still having these problems then I would say it's a
hardware problem of some sort.
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Phil Brutsche pbrutsch@creighton.edu
"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
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